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Tags: "I Have a Dream Speech" • ACT-SF • African American achievement • African American Art and Culture Complex • African American Celebration through Poetry • African American contribution • African American Shakes • African and African American Performing Arts Coalition • African Diaspora History Month • African music • Anisa Rasheed • Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation • Avotcja • Bay Area Ethiopian-Israeli hip-hop artist • Bay Area journalism • Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir • Bayview Opera House • Belva Davis • Berkeley Main Library • Berkeley Rep • Bill Dogget • Billy Higgins • Black and Jewish artists • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Cubans • Black Diaspora History Month • Black female television journalist • Black History Month • Black Panther Party • Black Rep • Brianna Amaya • Calvin Keys • CJM • Clifford Adams • Contemporary Jewish Museum • Coretta Scott • Cuba • Cuban culture • Cuban society • Cuttingball • Dance Mission • Dawan Muhammad • Debora Gerosa • Deborah Vaughan • Destiny • Dimensions Dance Theatre • Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble • Dingani Lelokoane • DJ Alarm • DJ Walt Digz • Dr. Albirda Rose’s The Village Dancers • Dr. Clayborne Carson • Dr. Susheel Bibbs • Dr. Umi Vaughan • Duke Ellington • East Bay Center for Performing Arts • Ed Reed • Elmer Gibson • Emancipation Proclamation • Ezra Jack Keats • Faye Carol • Fred Benjamin • Freight and Savage Coffee House • Garth Fagan • Gene Howell • Huey P. Newton • Hunters Point • Infinity Performing Ensemble • Infinity Productions • Jabari Shaw • James Leary • Jazz Heritage Center • Jetta Martin Dance Company • Juanita Hodge • jubilee • K Star Productions • Kalkidan Mashasha • Kamau Amen-Ra • Kehinde Wiley • Kellye Gray • KQED • Laney College Theater • Laney College Theatre • Latanya d.Tigner • Leon Joyce Jr. • LHT • LifeForceJazz Artists Collective • LifeForceJazz Record Label • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Malik Seneferu • Mama Charlotte • March on Washington • Marcus Shelby Orchestra • Marin Theatre Company • Martin Luther King Day • Martin Luther King Jr. • Mary Ellen Pleasant • Merritt College • MJ’s Brass Boppers • MoAD • Modesto Briseno • Monica Pree • Museum of the African Diaspora • Musical Tribute to Duke Ellington • Ninth Annual Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now • Opening Reception • OyamO • Paradise Free Jahlove • Pat Coleman • Patricia Wilder • Paul Gibson • President Obama • presidential inauguration • Randall Kline • Rena Marie Guidry • Rep. Barbara Lee • Robert Henry Johnson • salsa-timba dancing • San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown • SF Playhouse • SFJAZZ • Sila’s World of Music Concert • SJ Rep • Thamsanqa Hlatywayo • The Magic Theatre • The Seastrunk Brothers • This Week in Northern California • Thomas Tandy • timba • Tribute to Billy Higgins • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • West Oakland Branch Library • Wilda Aisyah • WordSlanger • YBCA Forum • “Afro Cuba” • “Black Sabbath” • “Black Swan” • “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” • “Dance Across the Diaspora” • “From These Roots Celebration” • “From These Roots: The Journey to Freedom” • “Harpist from the Hood" • “Loving Africa Tour” • “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.” • “Martin’s Dream” • “No More Violence No More Pain” • “Rebel Dance Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba” • “Rebel Dance Renegade Stance” • “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey Where Art and History Intersect” • “The Snowy Day” • “The World Stage: Israel” • “Tituba the Black Witch of Salem” • “World Stage Israel”

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Tags: "Dark Girl" • "Rain" • 30th Annual SFJAZZ Festival • A. Jaffa Fielder • Abbie Rhone • African • African-American • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Algiers • Alice Walker • Alile Sharon Larkin • Alva Rogers • America Ferrera • Angola 3 • Art Academy University • Ashkanez Music and Dance Center • Austin • Barbara O • Barbara-O (Barbara O. Jones) • Bay Area • Bay View • Bayview Opera House • Benh Zeitlin • Berkeley • Bernard Nicolas • Bill Duke • Biloxi • Black • Black Panther • Boukman Eksperyans • Bureau des Avo¬cats Inter¬na¬tionaux (BAI) • Cal Performance • California • California Historical Society • Carolyn Kouassiaman • Charles Burnett • Charles Fuller • Cheryl Lynn Bruce • Clare Winterton • Common Ground Health Clinic • Common Ground Relief • Community Cinema • Cora Lee Day • Culture Clash • Diane Lane • Don Amis • Dr. Suellen Miller • Dr. Susheel Bibbs • Dwight Henry • Eva Mendes • Fistula Foundation • Fort Mason Center • Freedom School • Gabrielle Union • Global Fund for Women • Gulf • Haile Gerima • Haiti and Latin America • Hamlet • Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes • Hotel Nikko • Hurricane Isaac • Hurricane Katrina • IJDH/BAI • Institute for Justice and Democracy • Internally Displaced Persons Camps • International Museum of Women • Jacqueline • Jacqueline Frazier • Jamaa Fanaka • Joanna Haigood • Johnny Weathers • Julie Dash • Kate Grant • L.A. • Living Independence for Everyone of LIFE • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Louisiana • Louisiana Gulf Coast • Lucas Studios • Malik Rahim • Mary Ellen Pleasant • Meg Ryan • Melvonna Marie Ballenger • Michael John Garces • Mississippi • Missouri • MoAD • Monterey Jazz Festival No. 55 • Museum of the African Diaspora • Mwalimu Johnson • New Orleans • New York Times • Nicholas Kristof • Ninth Ward • Olivia Wilde • Oprah Winfrey • Parnell Herbert • Paul S. Flores • PBS • Pixar • Port au Prince • President Barack Obama • Presidio • Pulitizer Prize • Quvenzhane Wallis • Raymond Nat Turner • Ric Salinas • Robert King • Roderick Young • RRAZZ Room • Safe Motherhood Program • San Francisco • San Francisco Film Society • San Francisco International Film Festival • SF Public Library Main Branch • Shakespeare Festivals • Sheryl WuDunn • Soji • Southside Theatre • Susan Williams • Tavis Smiley • Thomas Jefferson • Todd Akin • U.S. Army • UC Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive • UCLA • UpSurge Jazz and Poetry Ensemble • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks • Wanda's Picks Radio • Wave • Zaccho Dance Company • Zigi • “A Day in the Life of Willie Faust or Death on the Installment Plan” • “A Soldier’s Play” • “A Soldier’s Story" • “Baseball in the Time of Cholera • “Beasts of a Southern Wild" • “Beasts of the Southern Wild” • “Bush Mama” • “Daughters of the Dust" • “Daydream Therapy” • “Diary of an African Nun” • “Free for All” • “Free Shakespeare in the Park’s” • “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" • “Henry V” • “Hidden Memories" • “In the Flow: Soji and the AfroBeat Band" • “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema" • “L.A. Rebellion” • “Marin Shakespeare Festival” • “Maternal Mortality in Somaliland" • “Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo" • “Sailing Away" • “Super Fly" • “The Bathtub" • “The Kitchen” • “Ujamii Uhuru Schule Community Freedom School"

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Tags: A Raisin in the Sun • African American Art and Culture Complex’s Buriel Clay Theater • African American Shakespeare • Afrikan Sistah's Media Network • Afro-Cuban • Alain Soto • Alayo Dance Company • Albert King • Albert Woodfox • Alisa Dillion-Ogden • Amnesty International • Angola • Angola 3 • Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center • Avotcja • Axis Dance Company • Bay Area • Bay View • Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre • Berkeley • Billy Bang • Black Choreographers Here and Now • Black Codes • Black Panther Party • Broadway • Cha Cha Cha • Chankletas • Citizens for a Better Environment • Columbia • CubaCaribe • CubaCaribe Festival • Cuban Salsa • Custom Made Theatre • Cutting Ball Theater • Dadda or Banyanyi • Dance Mission • Daria Nile Trio • Dewey Monument • East Bay • East Oakland • Eastside Arts Alliance • Eastside Cultural Center • Ebony • Educational Associates • Egun • El Hajj Malik el Shabazz • Elouise Burrell • Emancipation Proclamation • Eric Hunt • Filipino • Fredrika Keefer • Gifted and Black" • Gladys “Bobi” Cepedes • Gough Street Playhouse • Gov. Bobby Jindal • Great Mother Yemaja • Grrrl Bridge • Guaguanco • Gulf of Mexico • Habeas Project • Harriett Tubman Terrace Apartments • Herman King • Herman Wallace • Ifá-Orisha faith • Ile Orunmila Oshun • India Cooke • Jeff Chambers • John Williams • Joshua Bell • Juan de Dios Ramos • Judith Smith • Kash Killion • Kenneth Nash • Kev Choice Ensemble • Kevin Brown • Kevin Epps • Kyleigh Nevis • L. Peter Callender • Laney College • Lauri Anderson • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leisei Chen • Lorraine Hansberry • Lorraine Hansberry Theatre • Louisiana • Louisiana Capital • Lucumi • Luisah Teish • Malcolm X • Malcolm X Jazzarts Festival • Malonga Center • Marc Brew • Marines Memorial Theatre • Martin King • Michael White • Michele Shay • Michelle Alexander • Mississippi • Mississippi River • MoAD • Modupue • Mother Earth • MOVE • Multi Ethnic Theater (MET) • Mumia Abu Jamal • Museum of the African Diaspora • Muziki Duane Roberson • Muziki Roberson • Nehanda Imara • New Orleans • Nina Simone • Oba Nani • Obba Nani • Occupy San Quentin • Olokun • Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet • Orisha • Oshun • Oya-Yansa Iansa • Palo Monte • Pearl Cleage • Pearl River county • Plaza CUBA • President Obama • Quentin Easter • Raices Profundas Mixed Repertory • Raissa Simpson • Ramon Ramos Alayo • Robert Gossett • Robert King • Rumba • Samuel Jackson • San Antonio Park • San Francisco • Sandy Poindexter • Santeria • SFIAF • Shelly Davis • Sister Makinyah • Sister Naderi Jomoke • Son • South Africa • Stanley E. Williams • Steven Anthony Jones • Straight Outta Hunter's Point 2 • Susana Arenas Pedroso • Sweet Honey in the Rock • Tarika Lewis • Tassafaronga Farm • Tenderloin • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness • The Sacred Well • TNT • U.K. • UC Berkeley • Union Square • Union Square Live 2012 • United States • Vadim Jean • Victor Talledos • Wanda Brown • Wanda Sabir • Wanda's Picks Radio • Yagbe Onilu • Yambu • Yemaya • Yerba Buena Gardens Festival • Yewa • Yoruba • Zellerbach Auditorium • “Bitter Melon” • “Blues for an Alabama Sky” • “From the Bottom of the Heap-the Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King” • “From the Inside Out: Food as Medicine" • “Full of Words” • “Grace Notes" • “In The Land of the Free…” • “Layers of Love" • “Love Yo Mama” • “Oil and Water" • “To Be Young

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Tags: 10th Annual DIVAfest • 11th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival • 14th Annual Stone Soul Concert • AAMLO • Abbie Rhone • Above All" • Abraham Burton • Abraham Burton Trio • Abraham Burton’s Trio • Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium • African American Museum and Library • African Burial Ground • African Diaspora • All of Us or None • Alrick Brown • America On-Line’s Black Voices • Andrea Joyce • Angela Davis • Angola 3 • Anna Deavere Smith • Art and Music in the Gardens • Atlantic • Audubon Ballroom • Berkeley Rep • Berry Gordy Jr. • Bill of Rights • Birdie Africa • Black Holocaust or Maafa • Black Monk • Book Passage • Booker T. Washington • Brandon Darby • California Coalition for Women Prisoners • California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) • California Habeas Project • Castro • Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) • Charlie Wilson • Cheryl Smith • Chinese-American • City Lights • Claude Marks • Common Ground Relief • Congo • Constitution • Dakar • Dance Mission Theater • Daniele Anastasion • Danny Glover • Debbie Peagler • Dejuan Conner • Detroit • Diana Ross • Digital Underground • Dimensions Rites of Passage Spring Production • Dispersal (Hurricane Katrina) • Dogpatch Cafe and Art Gallery • Dorian Brockington • Douglas Turner Ward • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • East Bay • Eastside Arts Alliance • Egypt • Elvin Jones • Eric Revis • Eric Strauss • EXIT Theatre Studio • Fantasia • FBI • Field of Dreams • Firestone • First Congregational Church of Oakland • First Landing National Monument to Slavery and Freedom • First Landing of Africans • Flint • Florent Tillon • Ford • Fort Monroe • France and Burkina Faso • Frances Driscoll • Freight and Savage • Gap Band • George Washington Carver • Germany • Gipsy Kings • Göran Hugo Olsson • Grassroots Composers Ensemble • Hafsa Al Amin • Haiti and Latin America • Hampton • Hank Jones • Harlem • Hitler • Honorable Elijah Muhammad • International Year for People of African Descent • Isabel Wilkerson • Ivy League • Jazz Heritage Center Educational and Media Theatre • Jean Kwok • Jeff Stetson • John Africa • John Fogerty • John Henrik Clarke • John Santos • John Santos Sextet • Jon Fromer • Joshua Safan • Kabuki • Kaidi Depelchin • Kamala Harris • Kathryn Wood • Katie Galloway • KBLX • Kelly Duane de La Vega • Ken Foster • Kim Longinott • Kimball’s Carnival • Kimberly Jeffery • King Leopold • La Tierra de Arará Celebrating the Dance and Music of the Afro-Caribbean • Lake Merritt Garden Center • Lance Armstrong • Laney College Theater • Lauren Hutton • Legal Services for Prisoners with Children • Leonard Foglia • Leslie Neale • Little Stevie Wonder • LWOP • Mabel Williams • Malcolm X • Malik Rahim • Malonga Casquelourd Center • Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts Theatre • Marisa Gonzalez • Mark Wright • Marvin Gaye • Medea Project • Mediterranean • Michael Jackson • Michael Lange • Michael Moore • Michelle Alexander • Michigan • Morrie Turner • Mother’s Day • Motown • MOVE family • Muammar Qaddafi • Museum of the African Diaspora • Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) • Muziki Roberson • NAACP • Nadia Costa • Nasheet Waits • Natasha • Nation of Islam • NBC • New York • New York Times • Ogun • Old Point Comfort • Oliver Schmitz • Opiyo Okach • Pearl Cleage • Pink Saris" • Pop Lyfe • Port Chicago 50 • Port Chicago Naval Base • President Barack Obama • Priscilla Ocen • Prostate Cancer Foundation • Pulitzer Prize • Push Dance Company • Raissa Simpson • Ramona Africa • Ranzel Merritt • Rashad • Red Vic Movie House • Republic of New Afrika • Resistance (Civil Rights) • Rhodessa Jones • Richmond • Riverhead Trade Paperbacks • Robert F. King • Robert F. Williams • Robert H. King • Romare Bearden • Romare Bearden Foundation • Rwanda • Sacramento • San Antonio Park • San Francisco Carnaval Parade 2011 • San Francisco International Film Festival • Sarah Bouyain • SB 9 • Seventh Annual Berkeley World Music Festival • Seventh Annual CubaCaribe Festival • SFIFF • Sheryl Crow • Sleep Train Pavilion • Sonoma Jazz Festival • South Africa • SpeakOut • Speech • St. Paul AME Church • Steve Cooley • Sundance Kabuki • Sweden • Texas Gov. Ann Richards • Thaddeus Jones • The EastSide Cultural Center • the Last Poets • Theatre for Incarcerated Women • Thulani Davis • Thurgood Marshall • Tim Wise • Today Show • Tom Juarez • Transformation (Baptism) • Transition (Middle Passage) • UC Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive • Umar Bin Hassan • Vanessa Roth • Virginia • Vukani Mawethu • Vukani Mawethu Choir • Wanda Sabir • Wanda’s Picks Radio • Wanda’s Picks Radio Show • Wee Pals • Will Smith • Women’s Civic Improvement Center • Work Week at Oakland Feather River Camp • World Festival of Black Art and Culture (FESMAN) • YBCA • YBCA Forum • YBCA Screening Room • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • Yoav Potash • Yuri Kochiyama • “A Cat in Paris" • “A Day I Will Never Forget" • “American Teacher" • “Better This World" • “Body Evidence" • “Bowling for Columbine" • “Circumstance" • “Cointelpro 101” • “Crime After Crime" • “Crying for You” • “Day of Absence” • “Detroit Wild City” • “Divorce Iranian Style" • “Fahrenheit 9/11" • “Filosofîa Caribeña" • “Fires in the Mirror” • “From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden • “Girl in Translation" • “Hands Up" • “Hot Coffee • “I Am Legend" • “I Never Got Enough" • “I Wanna Be Your Man” • “I Wish I Had a Red Dress” • “Incendies" • “Jean Gentil” • “Just Charlie” • “Juvies” • “Kinyarwanda" • “Let Me Down Easy!” • “Life • “Lucky Girl” • “Marathon Boy" • “Microphone" • “Miss Representation" • “Mixed Messages” • “Monument" • “My Girl Is a Dime” • “Novikoff Ward: Serge Bromerg: Retour de Flamme: Rare and Restored Films” • “Nurse Jackie" • “Once and Forever" • “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" • “Phoenix Risen: The Art of Cartoonist David Brown" • “Port Chicago" • “Rituals of Water" • “Rodney Ewing: Unwashed Saints" • “Sisters in Law" • “The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975" • “The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975” • “The Green Wave" • “The Meeting" • “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" • “The Place in Between" • “The Rape Poems" • “The Redemption of General Butt Naked" • “The Tiniest Place" • “The Troll Hunter” • “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration" • “The West Wing” • “Twilight: Los Angeles" • “Where Would I Be" • “Women Art Revolution" • "Allensworth: 100 Years of California Dream"

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Tags: Allensworth • Ankh Productions • Avotcja • Black Panther Party • Black Poets with Attitudes • Black Repertory Theater • Breath of Our Ancestors • Casper Banjo • Chuck D • Eddie Abrams • Flavor Flav • Joanna Haigood • Jon Hendricks • Joy Holland • Keith Hopkins • Lathan Hodge • Living Word Project • Mary Rudge • Mos Def • Museum of the African Diaspora • Nation of Islam • Oakland International Film Festival • Oakland Tech • Prescott Joseph Center • Professor Griff • Public Enemy • San Francisco Trolley Dances • Shanique S. Scott • TheArthur Wright • Tulare County • Wanda Sabir • Zaccho Dance Company